With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. NelsonRead
Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.
Interpretation
Education is crucial for personal growth and spiritual growth.
In this quote, Russell M. Nelson emphasizes the significance of education not only for the individual's development but also for the benefit of society and spiritual fulfillment. He suggests that pursuing education is a responsibility that resonates with personal ambition, collective responsibility, and one's relationship with the divine.
In practice
In a graduation speech highlighting the importance of lifelong learning.
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.
We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack,_x000D_ and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.
As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
Anyone who stops learning is old β whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable β regardless of physical capacity.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
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